OT: Beauty of programming languages (was: Way to flatten nested \include's?)

[Michael Gerdau]

> While guile is aimed at being an extension language, don't forget that
> Scheme was taught at MIT for many, many years as the finest language to
> give students a deep insight into computing and computer science (refer
> SICP). [Sadly, they now teach Python instead. Real world practicality
> defeated beauty, insight, and elegance. :-(]

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder..

Anybody remembering APL ?

THAT is a beautiful language and most likely totally unuseable for the
vast majority of today's aspiring programmers :)

Kind regards,
Michael
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